necessary food
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Should you pay for a prescription or an ER visit or much-needed new glasses or buy the necessary food for the next two or three days?
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023
To reproduce, the wasp needs to find a host that will supply the necessary food for her young.
From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2021
Over the years, smugglers from Syrian cities such as Palmyra and Al-Dumayr have brought in medicine and necessary food items—rice, flour, olive oil—but have sold them at high prices.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
We’d still have 40% of the population providing us with our necessary food if they had done.
From Forbes • Apr. 4, 2015
From what places do the sugar colonies draw food for subsistence?" the answer, given before Parliament, was, in part, as follows: "I confine myself at present to necessary food.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.